Vehicle-pole tip



(No Model.)

0. W. EUNSON.

VEHIGLE POLE TIP.

No. 391,407. Patented Oct. 23, 1888.

UNITED STATES PATENT UrricE.

CHARLES W'JEUNSON, OF EMERALD GROVE, WISCONSIN.

VEHICLE-POLE TIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 391,407, dated Qetober23, 1888.

Application filed May 8, 1888, Serial No. 273,212. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES W. EUNSON, a citizen of the United States,residing at En1- erald Grove, in the county of Rock and State ofWisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in SafetyAttachments for Vehicle-Poles; and I do hereby declare the following tobe alull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in safetyappliances or attachments for vehicle-poles; and it has for its objectto improve generally upon the construction of appliances intended foruse in preventing possible displacement, accidentally, of the neck-yokering from the pole of the vehicle.

A further object of the invention consists in providing a simple andefficient device of this kind,which may be readily and easily secured toany of the various forms of vehicle poles now in use.

To these ends, and to such others as the invention may relate, the sameconsists in the peculiar combinations and in the novel construction,arrangement, and adaptation of parts, all as more fully hereinafterdescribed, shown in the drawings, and then sought to be particularly anddefinitely defined in the appended claim.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings,which, with the letters of reference marked thereon, form a part of thisspecification.

Like letters refer to like parts throughout the several views.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view in whichmyinvention is shown as attached to a vehiclepole. Fig. 2 is a sideelevation of the same. Fig. 3 is aperspective view of the device as itappears when detached from the pole. Fig. 4 is a detail view of thespring-actuated latch.

Reference now being bad to the details of the drawings by letter, Arepresents a vehiclepole provided upon its under side, at a point nearits end, with a shoulder or pin, 13, which serves to prevent theneck-yoke ring from slipping too far back upon the pole, and O represents the ring, which is secured to the center of the neclcyoke, all ofwhich parts are of ordinary and well-known construction.

D is a casting of suitable form to adaptit to be fitted to the lowerface of the pole, and hav' its sides extended upward, so as to embracethe sides of the pole. This casting may be secured to the pole in anysuitable mannner, but preferably by screws or bolts passed through thesides of the casting and extended into or through the pole. The lowerportion of the casting D is provided with a downwardly-extended portion,E.

F is a lug or latch pivoted at a point near its upper end within avertical recess, a, formed within the extension E of the casting, therear portion of which recess is cut away,as shown, so as to permit thelatch to turn freely upon its pivot G, which is passed horizontallythrough the extension E.

Within the upper portion of the latch or lug F is formed a recess orchamber,II,for the reception of a coiled spring, I, which spring iscoiled around the pivot G, having one of its ends secured to the pivotand its opposite end attached in any suitable way to the easting at therear of the latch.

In practice the eye or ring upon the neck yoke is passed over the end ofthe pole in the usual manner,and as in passing along the pole itcontacts with the pivoted latch F, the latch is thrown backward, and assoon as the ring has passed the end of the latch the spring I serves toat once return the latch to its normal position, where it serves toprevent the ring from slipping forward or from being accidentallydisplaced. When it is desired to remove the neck-yoke, the latch ispressed back, and the ring is then readily removed from the pole.

Various expedients have heretofore been devised for locking theneck-yoke ring in place upon the vehicle-pole; but in most instances ithas been sought to accomplish the object by embodying in theconstruction of the pole certain features of mechanism adapted toaccomplish the purpose; but so far as I am aware it has not heretoforebeen proposed to provide a simple locking device which is adapted foruse in connection with any of the various vehicle-poles now in use. Sucha device I have described, and it will be readily seen that my withinthe upper portion of the latch and adapted to actuate the same, allarranged and operating substantially as described, and for attachmentmaybe quickly and easily attached to any vehicle pole or shaft withoutnecessitating a change in either the form or construction of the pole.the purpose specified.

Having thus described my invention, what I In testimony whereof I affixmy signature in ordain! to he new,and desire to secure by Letterspresence of two witnesses.

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The combination, with the casting D, of a CHARLES EUNSON' latch pivotedwithin a vertical recess formed in the lower portion of thecasting,andaspring adjusted within a chamber or recess formed\Vitnesses:

PAUL MEAGHER, V. D. GARDINER.

